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Marilee, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Celina census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75009. The Survey maps it on the Marilee quadrangle. It stands 692 feet above sea level.

Marilee within Collin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

71 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Marilee between 2005 and 2018, burning about 937 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Debris and open burning15
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking7
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
27 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2014Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 455 FIRE
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTIFF CHAPEL
14 September 2011Natural10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWALL STREET
13 September 2013Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1344 N. LOUISIANA
13 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNORTH PRESTON LAKES
5 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 106
30 August 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKERFOOT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Collin County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Marilee: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Redding Stone Weston QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Collin County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Celina5.6 miles8
Weston6.2 miles7
Kelly8.1 miles8
Chambersville9.5 miles7
Rhea Mills9.9 miles7
Roland10.5 miles7
Bloomdale11.6 miles11
Prosper11.7 miles13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on MarileeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076532The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380142. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.